Flight Rising Discussion

Please let me know if this is the wrong section of the forums

So, I understand the basic concept and I know there’s a “5-gen rule“ but I try to go back through bloodlines to find possibly compatible dragons and I get irregular results.
Sometimes it seems you can cross an individual with a great grandparent and sometimes it’s a great great grandparent.
So
My question is, does this site ONLY base breeding capability on the number of generations back to a common ancestor? So if one is 2 degrees removed and the other is 3, You need to breed down 3 and 2 more gens respectively?
Or!
Does the site consider genetic relativity? Cuz second cousins are 3 gen removed from the same ancestor but would have the same genetic similarity to each other as an individual to their great great great grandparent, that’s 6 direct generations worth of difference in just 3.

@EmeraldViqueen

Ran into a very weird bug with this not too long ago, thread here. Maybe it's the same sort of issue you're having?

@lara8
That’s an interesting bug, thanks for linking me

But I’m not sure that’s what was happening to me last I was doing this because Id go back or forward one more generation and then the assay would say they were compatible. Granted I could have simply not noticed the odd things were happening across the matrilineal line but I’ll keep a closer eye on my results and try to draw clearer conclusions next time I do.

So do you think the consensus is that breeding compatibility is purely dictated by the Number of generations? Cuz with how tangled some bloodlines are that’s a little frustrating :\ Doable obviously, but a little frustrating cuz that’s not how genetics actually works. *insert medical student grumbling here*

@wolftears not real legitimate irritation but I can handwave the eye changes cuz magic is a thing here, and technically there are lizard species that have clutches that are essentially clones of the parent. Interbreeding between species isn’t an issue for me cuz I just ignore the lack of hybridization as a limitation of the game-

But yes I would have preferred that they had included some acknowledgement of how genetic relations actually work since there’s so much focus on genes and probabilities with what breeds will show up in a clutch and how we figure out how best to breed for a specific color. But the breeding for color is super simplified as it because nothing is heritable past what the parents bring in but meh. I do recognize that it may have been more complicated to program, but I don’t know for sure cuz I’m not a programmer/coder.

It's the first suggestion you name is the answer. It's just simply counting five generations from the common ancestor and you should be able to breed the next gen. At least that's how it should work, bugs notwithstanding.